#all labor is skilled labor

[victusinveritas]

[burningchandelier]

Solidarity forever

Happy mayday

[theprincessoffrost]

I worked 15+ years in a fast food restaurant. I was informally part of the training team. I can say that despite the job being labled "unskilled," it indeed took skill. There were numerous people who just couldn't do it. There was at least one instance of a person who was training who didn't make it past the first 3 days on the job. You had to learn how to handle the various ovens. How to handle the knives, etc. That doesn't even include interactions with customers

Would you know how to tackle a seemingly endless lunch line of demanding customers without breaking down? How much of what product to make to account for demand?

The phrase "unskilled labor" gets under my skin every time. I didn't sit through numerous classes related to my job just to be told i was "unskilled"

[szaryherbatnik]

Yeah you can say im going through something.

[tj-crochets]

So I have had a ridiculous amount of fun this last week plushifying art and throwing my usual crafting rules out the window as I did so*, and I think I want to make plushifying art a more regular thing? I'm not sure how best to do that, though. Should I make a post that's like "reblog this if you want your art turned into plushies", or "reblog this with links to art you want turned into plushies" or suggest a tag that people can add to art they want plushified, and then I go through the tag when I want to make some plushies? *no paper patterns, just drawing directly on the fabric so each plushie is one of a kind

[mllllonsknlves]

SEEDS of growth.

[ecileh]

WHY DO NONE OF THE ACOTAR FAE HAVE HOBBIES EXCEPT THE ARCHERON SISTERS WHO ARE 19-25 YEARS OLD??? What have they all been doing for the last 500 years?? None of them have any real skills besides creative murder even though they had 450 years of peace between the first War and Amarantha’s reign.

Why does it not bother them that their mates have experienced less than 5% of their lifetimes and why do they not want their mates to live a little before settling down?

Why do they learn nothing from history that they literally lived? Why do none of them have a lick of emotional maturity or have any thoughts about the meaning of their lives or MEANINGFULLY improving the lives of others? I’m not talking about “let’s pass a law and let Illyrians still clip female wings as long as they aren’t obvious about it” I’m talking about a cultural overhaul where females and wild fae are valued and given justice *before* your nineteen-year-old recently-human mate expresses distaste for the way they are treated.

WHAT WERE THEY DOING FOR 450 YEARS

At least Tamlin plays the fiddle and Lucien studied/traveled I guess

[harpieisthecarpie]

to every entity populating online book and writing repositories with ai garbage: i hope the crushing weight of your inadequacy becomes all-encompassing and suffocating in a way that not even sleep allows you to escape

This includes, but is not limited to, ai pantomimes of:

Picture books

Audiobooks

Fanfiction

Anything going onto a free library resource

Characters, done by feeding actual writing to a 3rd party site

Scripts

"True" stories and "facts"

[sunbentshadows]

One thing I don't see lots of folks talking about here re: so-called "AI" tools, possibly because I see far fewer tech-circles posting on this site, is the impending Catch-22 of tech or tech-adjacent jobs utilizing AI or LLM models. I think a lot of folks are caught up in the art-theft, the nonsense generation, and both of those are TRUE PROBLEMS THAT SUCK -- they also don't seem to know that LLM tools are actually, I think, soon going to be a near-requirement for jobs that have any element of coding or are tech-adjacent.

I know for a fact the MOST-senior, best programmer on my team is using AI to write his scripts. Why? Because it's fast. The mistakes it makes, according to him, tend to be easy and quick fixes, or made up method calls, and that's simple to tweak. There are anecdotes on reddit and Bluesky about scripts or programs that would normally take two weeks for a person to perfect being hashed out in a day using AssGPT or BroPilot. I believe it, I've seen it.

If we apply that more widely - this is what a lot of tech workers are going to be doing, ARE doing, right now. I am significantly concerned about the future of these jobs, or say, if you have moral-takes with AI or LLM tools. I strongly suspect, due to productivity gains, soon "not using them" isn't going to be an acceptable option to managers-that-be - this isn't for things like "Ooooh well you should just go learn new skills," it's that the market saturation will require one of your skills to be using LLM/AI coding-tools.

People can't learn new skills nearly as quickly as LLM's have started spitting out code that is almost entirely correct. It's just not going to happen - we need practice and repetition, and AI-adjacent programs just... don't. I can also say with confidence, the only reason we haven't seen it at wide-adoption within companies yet is due to concerns about proprietary secret-leaks. That's it. That's the thread that is currently separating LLM-use as a requirement vs a sanctioned-but-nothing-too-specific-in-the-machine activity.

I know the current hotness is that AI-tools are overrated, but from what I'm seeing in tech-world, I just don't think that's entirely true. I strongly suspect we're about to see "productivity-gains" in some of these circles the likes of which we haven't seen since rapid proliferation of the personal computer - and it's going to be use-tools or get-lost, and in the world of Capitalism you are only as good as your capacity for productivity (and, people using LLM's can spike their productivity to save literal days, weeks of time for certain given tasks) - and as someone with a career in this field, I'm not entirely sure what to do with that.

[extremelyoldandincrediblycringe]

The tags were undescribed and unreadable so here's my phone ocr rendering

#I think this is unnecessarily divisive

#I absolutely agree that I would not survive in retail or service work

#that shit is hard. it requires developed skills. and it should be paid comparably to an office job.

#however. the vast majority of my colleagues also have specialist skills

#either that they've studied or that they developed on the job

#like. I'm a programmer. other people who work desk jobs would have difficulty doing what I do.

#At the end of the day all of us are fucking underpaid by people who take advantage of our labour

#But the capitalist bastards have decided that some skills are worth less than others because ????????

#So that's where we ought to focus our ire rather than at other workers

[alullinchaos]

wait off topic if I change Cinder's semblance for my rwby canon-adjacent au.... would this be controversial editing to warn people that the tags are novel length but that i love them and also @graythegreyt pls read them when u have a chance

[aurosoulart]

Oh so you're an art thief. Stealing other people's art and idea using ai and claiming it as your own. Gross, unfollowed and blocked. Maybe do some research into ai art and how harmful it is.

since this person blocked me they won't hear my response, but I wanted to post this in case the point of my previous post wasn't clear:

I want to talk about ways to improve and ethically use AI image algorithms specifically because of how much research I've done on how harmful they are.

as a professional artist, I'm among the group of people at direct risk of losing my livelihood to artificial intelligence.

however, as someone who's also fully entrenched in the industry of new technologies and who has had an interest in them for many years, I know that we invent things first and then ask the ethical questions about them later.

I'm in a unique position where I'm often in public speaking situations about the confluence of art and technology, and I want to use my voice to try and have some say in how we can make things like VR, AR, and AI more ethical and safe for everyone.

I would never take an AI generated image and claim it as my own - this is part of the reason why I'm being upfront about the way I'm experimenting with using them for artistic reference and as part of my process.

I believe that technology isn't inherently good or bad, and that it's up to us to find positive ways to use it. I want to be part of the search for those positive ways.

[particularj]

We already know this to be true. Look at how people (in the US) reacted when COVID shut everything down. And many were labeled ‘essential workers’ until companies could go back to claiming ‘nobody wants to work anymore’ in less than 2 years.

They are, basically then, socially essential. And people should be paid a living wage for any job, especially an essential one.

People who say this are literally saying that they prefer for the workers to all be inexperienced and desperately looking for other jobs. But they somehow also expect good service.

[hasturmcfuckface]

i bring an “all labor is skilled labor” vibe to the history class that the capitalists here dont really like

[moki-dokie]

how to make 19 year old boy who came of age during the pandemic and never had a real real job before now realize he needs to Chill The Fuck Out and be Less eagar about working for free holy shit he is impossible to wrangle

[blackmoldmp3]

this is so funny. designated frothing fascist bc i think algorithmic machine generated images kind of blow and also are absolutely horrendous for the environment